“Il Ritorno offers a powerful vision of humanity and compassion… a luminous new work” The Australian The stage is awash with bodies tumbling, lifting and clutching. Then, out of the darkness and gnawed by nostalgia, the Greek hero Ulysses appears after twenty long years of war… Read More »Il Ritorno at NORPA
Splendour in the Grass put on an orgy of contemporary indie music for all to feast upon this year, the line-up was immense. Not all was bliss down there in the mosh however. My friend Deb at Lismore’s Music Bizarre, frustrated, described how her friend… Read More »Too old to dance?
In another coup for the arts in this region, NORPA will premiere an explosive new physical theatre work, Cockfight. For the last eighteen months Gold Coast-based company The Farm has been developing the work in collaboration with NORPA Generator (NORPA‘s creative development program) and NORPA… Read More »NORPA presents: COCKFIGHT by The Farm
World-class performing arts right on our doorstep! We’re a lucky lot to live on the North Coast and it just got better with NORPA’s recent announcement of its 2015 season. Highlights include contemporary circus superstars Circa with their new show Beyond, NORPA’s own Railway Wonderland… Read More »NORPA 2015
Tucked away in the hinterland village of Federal is a ground-breaking concept that’s challenging popular perceptions of dance – and changing the cultural landscape of art and performance along the way. Centred on the basic tenet of using communication as a creative tool, The Corner Dance… Read More »THE CORNER DANCE LAB
Tucked away in the hinterland village of Federal is a ground-breaking concept that’s challenging popular perceptions of dance – and changing the cultural landscape of art and performance along the way. Centred on the basic tenet of using communication as a creative tool, The Corner Dance… Read More »THE CORNER DANCE LAB
Floods, thunderstorms, rolling waves and swollen creeks – we are all intimately connected to water in this region – it’s the Northern Rivers after all! Acclaimed choreographer Lisa Wilson has plumbed the depths of our fear and fascination with water with a major new dance… Read More »‘Lake’ – Dancing on Water at NORPA
As I have recently written, Bali, in the sense of a picture-postcard, tropical paradise, has had its time. Murky waters, trash like confetti on streets and beaches and more traffic year-round than Byron Bay on Boxing Day has left the little island a less-than-idyllic holiday… Read More »BALI SPIRIT FESTIVAL: A GREATER PURPOSE
As I have recently written, Bali, in the sense of a picture-postcard, tropical paradise, has had its time. Murky waters, trash like confetti on streets and beaches and more traffic year-round than Byron Bay on Boxing Day has left the little island a less-than-idyllic holiday… Read More »BALI SPIRIT FESTIVAL: A GREATER PURPOSE
As I have recently written, Bali, in the sense of a picture-postcard, tropical paradise, has had its time. Murky waters, trash like confetti on streets and beaches and more traffic year-round than Byron Bay on Boxing Day has left the little island a less-than-idyllic holiday… Read More »BALI SPIRIT FESTIVAL: A GREATER PURPOSE
